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Imperial War Museum

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See the Original 1958 Sketches for the Peace Symbol

Avatar photo by Allison Meier February 17, 2017

Gerald Holtom’s rarely exhibited original sketches for the peace symbol will go on view this March at the Imperial War Museum in London.

Posted inArt

Lee Miller’s Photographs Frame the Women of World War II

by Chloe Pantazi April 13, 2016April 12, 2016

LONDON — A Lee Miller photograph often tells more than one story.

Posted inNews

Crimes of the Art

Avatar photo by Benjamin Sutton June 2, 2015June 2, 2015

On this week’s art crime blotter: Colorado cops target artist who stacks stones, Chinese authorities not pleased about Forbidden City nude photo shoot, and murder weapon turns up in London museum.

Posted inNews

For #MuseumWeek, Institutions Share Their Secrets Online

Avatar photo by Allison Meier March 23, 2015March 23, 2015

What are museums hiding in their pasts and inside their collection storage vaults? Some of those secrets (or just lesser-known facts) are being shared by institutions around the world this Museum Week through the hashtag #secretsmw.

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Empty Vitrines at British Institutions Call for Copyright Reform

Avatar photo by Benjamin Sutton November 21, 2014

Museums and libraries in the United Kingdom are demanding copyright reform by leaving exhibits and display cases conspicuously empty in protest. The institutions are making a stand against a law that prevents them from showing millions of unpublished documents, particularly those dating from World War I.

Posted inIn Brief

As a Poppy-Flooded Armistice Day Ends, a Major WWI Library May Close

Avatar photo by Allison Meier November 13, 2014November 13, 2014

The Imperial War Museum (IWM) library in London is reportedly under threat as the institution faces a major budget cut.

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The Astounding Art and Artifacts Museums Didn’t Know They Had

Avatar photo by Allison Meier January 9, 2014July 24, 2015

Sometimes museums and archives don’t know the treasures they already have, collecting dust on some forlorn shelf or hidden away in a forgotten box. Through mislabeling or earlier disorganization, great works of art and history are sometimes lost for years before being “discovered” right inside the museum walls.

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The Ruins, Rubble, and Architecture of War in Art

Avatar photo by Allison Meier August 9, 2013August 12, 2013

The architecture of war is more accurately the ruins it leaves behind, but there are structures to this destruction. An exhibition at the partially reopened Imperial War Museum in London is looking at both the rubble and the building of war.

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